Located in Tampere, the Finland’s Police College trains all the country’s police officers. For The Motive (La motivation) seven students from the Poliisiammattikorkeakoulu – two women and five men – describe what led them to enrol here. Each of them responds to the same question: what motives drove you to become a police officer? Filmed like video mug shots, they express themselves in Finnish while a French voice-over creates a feeling of distance in these narratives of hopes.